INNUMERABLE beauties, thou white hair Spread forth like to a region of the air, Curl'd like a sea, and like ethereal fire Dost from thy vital principles aspire To be the highest element of fair; From thy proud heights thou so command'st desire, That when it would presume, it grows despair, And from itself a vengeance doth require; While absolute in that thy brave command, Knitting each hair into an awful frown Like to an host of lightnings, thou dost stand To ruin all that fall not prostrate down, While to the humble like a beamy crown Thou seemest, wreath'd by some immortal hand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE MEMORY OF MR. OLDHAM by JOHN DRYDEN WASHINGTON'S MONUMENT, FEBRUARY, 1885 by WALT WHITMAN AT FLORENCE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH MIRTH by EDITH COURTENAY BABBITT THE END OF THE WORLD by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON MORNING ON SHINNECOCK by OLIVA WARD BUSH MADRIGAL: TO HIS LADY SELVAGGIA VERGIOLESI by CINO DA PISTOIA |